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Shane O'Mara

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Shane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research and Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator at the Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College, and the author of Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation.

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Why Torture Doesn’t Work

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May 20, 2016 Shane O'Mara explains why inflicting pain actually impedes efforts to obtain life-saving information.

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The Global Threat of White Terror

Mar 19, 2019 Bjørn Ihler calls for a comprehensive response to increasingly pervasive and violent far-right movements.

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Stagnant Capitalism

Mar 19, 2019 Yanis Varoufakis explains why abundant savings are not being invested productively, despite the supposed magic of the market.

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Legalization Is the Only Viable Drug Policy

Mar 19, 2019 Juan Manuel Santos, et al. frame the issue as a simple choice between empowering governments or enabling criminal cartels.

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Special Edition: Brexit, the Season Finale?

Mar 19, 2019 Elmira Bayrasli & Fintan O'Toole discuss the one issue that has plagued the Brexit negotiations: The Irish backstop.

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Showing Europe’s True Colors

Mar 19, 2019 Romano Prodi & Stefano Micossi call on European Union citizens to greet the start of spring by displaying the EU flag.

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Bretton Woods at 75

Mar 18, 2019 Arminio Fraga shows why the global economic-governance system created by wartime policymakers remains relevant today.

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Think Local, Develop Better

Mar 18, 2019 Zara Kayani says community involvement in Pakistani development projects holds lessons for other countries.

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Maduro’s Useful Idiots

Mar 18, 2019 Shlomo Ben-Ami criticizes the Western left for opposing any action against Venezuela's tyrannical regime.

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